Mouse alarm pheromone shares structural similarity with predator scents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4762-4767

  Brechbühl, Julien ^a   Moine, Fabian ^a   Klaey, Magali ^a   Nenniger Tosato, Monique ^a   Hurni, Nicolas ^a   Sporkert, Frank ^b   Giroud, Christian ^b   Broillet, Marie Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTER OF LEGAL MEDICINE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Behavior; Calcium imaging; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SULFUR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CARNIVORE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GANGLION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MICE; OLFACTORY BULB; PHEROMONES;

EID: 84875267667     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214249110     Document Type: Article

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